The Evolving Role Of The Data Scientist

By Ariel Amster, Qubole Data scientists must be feeling pretty good about themselves. After all, wherever you turn, you read about how popular their job is. In their listing of the 25 best jobs in America, Glassdoor revealed data scientist is at the top of the list, scoring the best in categories such as Career Opportunity and Job Score. That doesn’t even account for Harvard Business Review calling the position of data scientist the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century. That was back in October 2012, and not much has changed in the perception of data scientists. It’s clear that businesses place a lot of value in hiring a qualified data scientist. With so much attention being paid to them, data scientists likely feel pretty comfortable with where they’re at.…